South Asian Languages & Literatures
A starter pack of/for academics, researchers, writers, translators, students, libraries, presses etc. whose work focuses on the Language(s) and Literature(s) of South Asia. To be added or to suggest others, comment or DM with bio.
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@keshavbansal.bsky.social
@aampannaa.bsky.social
Author: Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (CUP, 2024) | Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean: JSLL, OP Jindal Global University | PhD, Felix Scholar: SOAS |
@niyerseattle.bsky.social
Academic, Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, Editor-in-Chief South Asian Review, dog mom. All views personal
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@asrar.blog
poet | urdu-dakhni literature | kabikaj.org | anjuman.org | asrar.blog | dar al isnad | gawan academy
@balarag.bsky.social
Ethnomusicology, South Asia, Queerness, Translation, Caste and Spirituality. Santa Cruz, CA/ India SALT Chicago summer school
@amitbaishya.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Postcolonialist, South Asian Literatures, Anthropocene, Human Animal Studies, Plant Humanities, Northeast Indian Studies. Book Reviews Editor at "South Asian Review"
@meerashar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll
@withvai.bsky.social
Literary Translator | Hi - En | Poet | Editor | Proofreader | https://linktr.ee/autumnalways
@theriveter.bsky.social
2024 PEN/Heim Translation Grant, 2024 ALTA Emerging Literary Translator Tamil, English, French, Spanish subhashree-translator.com
@southasianbuoy.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Comp Lit, Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion @ucdavis. South Asia/France/Early Mod/Lit Crit/Visual Studies/ Performance
@sonakshis11.bsky.social
Senior Writing Tutor @ Ashoka Uni, Translation Fellow @ SouthAsiaSpeaks, Translations Editor @ Usawa, Educational Arm Assistant @ Asymptote, ASLE Translation Grantee. Reader, Scholar, Translator, Writer, Zinester. Ecowriting and Ecopoetics.
@jasongrunebaum.bsky.social
Translator of Hindi lit / @SALTatChicago / @ArmorySqPrize / Fiction writer / #FacultyForward and proud member of #SEIULocal73
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
@arnabdr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @FGCU | PhD @UConn | Areas: World & South Asian Lit + Studies in Colonialism & Human Rights | host @NewBooksNetwork | Books on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman | Parent of 🐈⬛🐈 🐈⬛ arnabduttaroy.com
@turnic.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Jindal School of Languages and Literature (JSLL), O. P. Jindal Global University, India | PhD in English @GWU, Washington, D.C. |She/her|
@himalmag.bsky.social
Southasia’s magazine of politics and culture. Get our newsletters in your inbox: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters
@anjaliarondekar.bsky.social
Sexuality-Caste-Archives. Federer4eva http://anjaliarondekar.sites.ucsc.edu/
@nilanjanaroy.bsky.social
Otter of books Black River: https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-india https://tinyurl.com/blackriver-roy Novelist, FT columnist, professional cat herder
@farinamir.bsky.social
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. she/her. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@anusharao.bsky.social
Author of How to Love in Sanskrit, studying religion at U of Toronto, likes to write new things about old things
@sugarintheplum.bsky.social
Writer. Immigrant. Sharp-tongued literature professor🌶️ Images, photographs, visual culture Writing on Afrapix, a South African photographers' collective Website: https://neelikajayawardane.com/
@kandasamy.bsky.social
Poet & Novelist ¦ Fellow, Royal Society of Literature ¦ Winner PEN Hermann Kesten Prize '22 ¦ Shortlisted Womens Prize ¦ Fellow IWP, Iowa ¦ PhD ¦ தமிழ்
@mahmudwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Translator. Short stories: Killing The Water, 2010, Penguin India. Translation: Black Ice, 2012, HarperCollins India. Nomad - Dhaka, Calcutta, Tulsa, Boston, Detroit, Providence, Bay Area, LA, Toyota, Philadelphia. 2025 NEA Translation Fellow.
@ajab.bsky.social
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics. Twitter @yakabikaj
@timlorndale.bsky.social
I like literature in Old Kannada and Sanskrit, dogs, and records. Montréal
@tiasb.bsky.social
PhD candidate and Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University | Translator
@shnidhi.bsky.social
Asst. Teaching Prof of English @sacredheartuniv; Cultural Critic, #MeToo, 1947 Partition; Archive, Hindi Cinema Editor Salaam Newsletter for South Asian Literary Association; @shuenglishdept @westernuEnglish PhD
@clarachambara.bsky.social
'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
@sohinipillai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
@iqtibaas88.bsky.social
کتابِ زندگی سے اقتباسات Mostly literary stuff: excerpts from Urdu/Hindi/English books, quotations, musings Also: food, plants & paintings
@javariafarooqui.bsky.social
Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@prarochana.bsky.social
Historian @CSSSC. Author, Creative Pasts(2007); Scripts of Power(2023). Infosys Prize for Humanities 2020. Current obsessions spinning, weaving, growing food.
@humanprof.bsky.social
Professor @northwesternu, Director @AliceKaplanInstitute, South Asian and Comparative literature, anti-caste.
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories/Sociologies